PACE Standing Committee meets in Sarajevo

The PACE Standing Committee meets in Sarajevo on 22 May, ahead of Bosnia and Herzegovina's six-month chairmanship of the Council of Europe.

The parliamentarians will hold an exchange of views with Foreign Minister Igor Crnadak on his country's priorities, and are also due to debate children's rights, the criminalisation of irregular migrants and cultural heritage in crisis situations.

They will also decide on the allocation of additional seats in the Assembly to Turkey.

(*) The Standing Committee, which acts on the Assembly's behalf between plenary sessions, is made up of the President and Vice-Presidents of the Assembly, the chairpersons of political groups, the chairpersons of national delegations and the committee chairpersons, totalling some 60 parliamentarians from the Council of Europe's 47 member States.